American Music Partnership of Seattle Internship Opportunities 2009-2010
 
The Simpson Center for the Humanities and the American Music Partnership of Seattle is pleased to announce support for UW graduate student internships at AMPS partner organizations for Fall Quarter 2009 and Winter Quarter 2010.  The American Music Partnership of Seattle supports collaboration among Experience Music Project, KEXP Radio, and the University of Washington. It is funded by a generous grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and administered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.
 
UW graduate students selected for and committed to these internship opportunities will receive quarterly stipends, funded through the American Music Partnership of Seattle.  Internships and fellowships requiring an average 10 hours per week are stipended at $1000 (total funding) per ten-week quarter; internships requiring fewer hours, or fewer weeks, will receive a proportionate, prorated stipend amount.
 
For a summary of AMPS internship opportunities, please see below.  For details on internships and applications, please see the attached.  Applicants should refer questions to the contacts at the respective organizations. 
 
90.3 FM KEXP SEATTLE
 
•	Research Assistant—KEXP Documentaries, Michele Myers, Producer. With this assistantship you will learn the professional workings of the creative side of the radio business, including deadlines, artist contact and team coordination.  You’ll find out how to write copy for radio, program music to illuminate a subject and how to create stories that will move a radio audience. If interested you may be able to help with audio transfer and audio editing.
 
•	Programming Assistant— DJ  Michele Myers, Saturday Afternoons on KEXP Seattle, Wake Up on WNYE New York.. With this assistantship you will learn the professional workings of a DJ in the radio business, including deadlines, artist contact and team coordination.  You’ll find out how to research and write copy for radio. If interested you may be able to help with audio transfer and audio editing.